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The celebrates breakthroughs in sustainability science, rewarding solutions that show measurable potential to help humanity remain within the boundaries of the Earth’s ecosystem. Its aim is to engender international competition and support collaboration that will help accelerate scientific discoveries worldwide.

The Frontiers Planet Prize is designed to bring forward and recognize the scientists who will help Earth remain within its .Ìý

1. Biosphere Integrity
2. Climate change
3. Stratospheric ozone depletion
4. Atmospheric aerosol loading
5. Ocean acidification
6. Biogeochemical flows
7. Freshwater Use
8. Land-System change
9. Novel entities – substances such as man-made artificially produced chemicals - ranging from plastics to pesticides, and nuclear waste – which enter our environment.

Eligibility:

• The Frontiers Planet Prize will be awarded to the best research published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals, with robust peer review and transparent publication procedures.
• The acceptance date of the article must fall within the 2 years prior to the launch of the competition (date of acceptance: 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2024). Scientific excellence is the default principle to participate in the Frontiers Planet Prize.
• Research from all disciplines, including social sciences, is eligible, on condition it is focused on planetary boundaries and offers new insights that help to reduce the destabilization of the Earth system.
• Submissions must present the best potential applicable solution to tackle planetary (environmental) threats. The solution should be:
  • Scalable
  • involve a maximum number of the planetary boundaries
  • contribute to the general understanding of the planetary boundaries
• Submissions must present original research findings or insightful reviews and syntheses focused on Planetary Boundaries that help to reduce the destabilization of the Earth system.

Scientific criteria:

The following criteria must be met through for all contributions to be considered for the Frontiers Planet Prize:

• The research outlines systemic solutions or pathways that can be implemented in policies, adapted commercially, or otherwise contribute to keep global development within Planetary Boundaries.
• The research advances the scientific understanding and quantification of Planetary Boundaries. It explores how Planetary Boundaries are affected or impact life support systems/the Earth system or investigates the implications of adopting Planetary Boundaries thinking across disciplines, sectors and activities/applications.
• The research must connect to several Planetary Boundaries at the Earth system scale. Research that explores interactions/relations between multiple Planetary Boundaries will be prioritized.

Selection criteria

• Applicability of the research results
• Scalability of the application
• Number of planetary boundaries involved
• Contribution to general understanding of Planetary boundaries
• Scientific novelty
• Research quality

The Prize

• A research grant of 1 million Swiss francs to facilitate and accelerate the research and development of the winning research.
• The opportunity to present and discuss winning research in roundtable discussions at some of the world's most relevant conferences and regional events.

Nomination procedure

Interested individuals should contact Meredith.chatman [at] mcgill.cs (Meredith Chatman )by October 1, 2024.

ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University may select up to three individuals to be forwarded to the National Nominating Body (NNB) for Canada (National Research Council of Canada). The NNB will select the Canadian contingent of nominees to go forward to the Frontier Foundation.